Nano
2017 · 16m · Estados Unidos
Directed by Mike Manning
In the near future, nanotechnology administered to the bloodstream can be synchronised with computer applications to augment the human genome. A new law ordering and regulating this procedure meets resistance from hacktivists conspiring to frustrate the imminent deployment of 'Nano version 2.0'.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
The premise could've been another trite techno-thriller, but Manning sidesteps the obvious by making the real tension not about stopping the tech but about the *resistance itself* — suddenly you're rooting for hacktivists against a law that sounds reasonable, and that moral inversion is exactly the kind of subversive move most scouts would've buried.
A formally competent sci-fi entry that engages seriously with the body-horror and surveillance lineage of Cronenberg and Videodrome, though it operates more as thriller mechanics than as the meditative philosophical interrogation that lineage demands.
The sound design of the nano particles coursing through veins — that microscopic hum layered under every scene — is the choice that sells the abstraction; it's how Manning makes invisible technology *feel* immediate and corporeal on a modest budget.